Sunday, May 27, 2012

This mashup of the Bee Gees and Nirvana was created over a year ago as part of the ongoing GYBO Weekend Challenge. It was featured on AudioPorn Central and made their 2011 Top 20 of most-popular posts. I've finally made a video for it in memoriam Robin Gibb (1949-2012).

"Smells Like Bee Gees" will be re-released (along with a remastered version) in one of the later volumes of the Collected Mashup series. In the meantime, you can download the original mp3 here.

Unfortunately (but predictably) Warner Music Group blocked the Youtube version, which was up for almost exactly a day. Here's the Vimeo version:

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

At long last, the first volume of the DJ not-I collected mashup retrospective series is finally available. As previously stated, with my semi-retirement from eight years of mashup-making to embark on original musical adventures, I'm releasing the entirety of my blend/bootleg/bastard-pop oeuvre in a series of mp3 albums, featuring all your favorite mashups of mine as well as special remixes, instrumentals, and previously unreleased tracks.

The journey begins here, with MashAnthology, a collection that ranges from my earliest efforts to some of my biggest "hits" made between 2004 and 2006. Though I released a previous version of this particular album, this is the definitive and deluxe edition which features several remixes, remasters, instrumentals and radio versions, many of them recently produced especially for the Collected Mashup series.

MashAnthology is all about "beginner's mind" (i.e. the initial thrill I found in juxtaposing various tunes, and the occasionally rough production values that went with it) and the utter eclecticism in the choice of sources, which was to become my trademark style. Although most of the tracks on this album use rap vocals, this is by no means a strictly hip-hop affair, and the compositions range from electronic to grunge to jazz to metal to pop to soul to world music. Rhythm is at center stage here, but my later emphasis on melody and harmony (or, as some of my mashup colleagues might say, my obsession with key) is clearly evident.

Enjoy and stay tuned for Collected Mashups Vol. II: The Sōhei Album, the majority of which will consist of previously-unreleased material!